Archives for November 2004
Links for 2004-11-30 (November 30, 2004) Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad Penny Arcade's one-shot cartoon illustrates the totally obvious social dynamics of anonymous misbehaviour online and the clear need for someone to generate mechanisms to compensate for it... (categories: anonymity cartoon...
Links for 2004-11-29 (November 29, 2004) Rufus Wainwright's Gay Messiah "He will fall from the stars - Studio 54 - and appear on the sand of Fire Island's shore. Better pray for your sins, Better pray for your sins, 'cuz the gay messiah's coming..."...
A day of sorting stuff out... (November 27, 2004) My attempt to get my flat sorted out and all my filing and bits of paper organised for upcoming tax-related horrors is not going well, so I've decided to shame myself into getting stuff done by broadcasting the whole grimy...
Links for 2004-11-27 (November 27, 2004) U2log.com - one of the first and best single-subject magazine-style weblogs I'm not a great fan of U2, but it's still an impressive site - and more importantly was created way before Gawker media and the current fad for...
Links for 2004-11-26 (November 26, 2004) Blogcritics say Star Trek is finally back! And you know what - I agree with them. Once last season's ghosts were exorcised, it's actually started to be a watchable and interesting piece of TV again. My name is Tom...
Links for 2004-11-25 (November 25, 2004) Memberships available on Metafilter for a one-off $5 donation to the server fund The donation does not entitle you to any special treatment and if you misbehave you will be ejected. I quite like this approach as a way...
Links for 2004-11-24 (November 24, 2004) The Smaller Picture by Kevan Davis So the Smaller Picture has been in my head a bit recently - individuals choose whether a pixel is on or off and over time a picture emerges. This picture represents the collective...
Links for 2004-11-23 (November 23, 2004) When Your Co-Worker is Away How apposite! And on the day when my co-worker appears to have bunked off work because he is "ill" or something. Bah! I shall have fun with this forthwith... (categories: art chair coworker desk...
Links for 2004-11-22 (November 22, 2004) The Hand Up Project: Attempting to Meet the New Needs of Natural Life-Forms "We acknowledge that such trans-species caregiving may in fact be a form of control. In recognition of this paradox, the new structures are aesthetically based on...
Links for 2004-11-21 (November 21, 2004) Secret Santa 2004 - where the whole weblogging community comes together to buy each other happy nice things Don't tell me you can resist. This is like our fourth year of running Secret Santa for the web community with...
Links for 2004-11-20 (November 20, 2004) Cold Turkey by Kurt Vonnegut who frankly deserves a hagiography "We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders...
Links for 2004-11-19 (November 19, 2004) "Blog Threat Management" - ludicrous and scaremongering crap? "Viruses, Trojan horses ... organized crime, terrorists ... continue to make the Internet a dangerous place due to fraud, extortion, denials of service, identity theft, espionage, and other crimes. Now, blogging...
Links for 2004-11-18 (November 18, 2004) Colour-coded bookshelves I've no idea what this set of photographs is about - I can't even remember where I found it although almost certainly it was on kottke's site because I nick a lot of his stuff. I just...
A Delicious Library Easter Egg... (November 16, 2004) So here's a little easter egg you might enjoy for users of Delicious Library. It's not exactly unknown - I just did a search and found a reference to it on MacSlash somewhere. But anyway - it doesn't look like...
Links for 2004-11-16 (November 16, 2004) BBC News website scoops award The Online News Association says on its website that the judges "were effusive in their praise for this site, noting that it has continued to improve and innovate" since it last won the award...
Links for 2004-11-14 (November 14, 2004) Awesome animation of a man walking composed out of stencilled imagery From a presentation by Timo at Design Engaged. Everyone went ooooooh. I particularly like the fact that you can pause it at any point through and see what...
Links for 2004-11-13 (November 13, 2004) Women design databases too - on Cal Henderson saying normalised data is for sissies 'Sissy' as a term is often used as a term to suggest that a man is gay. Sure it's not positive about the feminine either,...
Links for 2004-11-12 (November 12, 2004) Stunning, if annoyingly pseudo-political, video if you're into graphic design stuff Even if you can't cope with the mixed "actually true and scary" / "cheap propagandising arse" message, then the infographics / constructivist stylings are worth checking out. Shelf...
Links for 2004-11-11 (November 11, 2004) Firefox 1.0 has been released to the general public And no doubt the advert will be appearing in the New York Times any day now too. It's all terribly exciiting and I shall download it immediately. Nation's Poor Win...
A brief review of Delicious Library... (November 9, 2004) So today I bought Delicious Library, mostly because I've been wanting to get stuff organised and I'm trying to shed some heavy media matter and I thought being able to see it all in one place might make it easier...
Links for 2004-11-09 (November 9, 2004) Gothamist media launches Londonist in ... er ... London So I don't know what I think about this one. I still think there's enormous scope for a weblog about London, but I don't know if this is the one...
The BBC releases In Our Time in free-to-download MP3 format... (November 8, 2004) I was planning to post about this last week, but I got distracted with something. Hope you can forgive me. Anyway, a while ago BBC Radio and Music Interactive (where I hang out during the day for cash) released Radio...
Links for 2004-11-08 (November 8, 2004) OS-tan manga visualisations of what prominent Operating Systems would look like if they were cute girls There's something glorious about this stuff. I kind of wish someone would take this as a theme and actually turn it into open...
Visualisations lead to self-knowledge... (November 7, 2004) This is absolutely the last post on visualisations of plasticbag.org data unless someone sends in something else really cool - and this one is more of a clarification than anything else. Daniel Boyd created this really cool model of post...
Three more sets of visualisations... (November 7, 2004) Wow, so it's nearly three in the morning, which is basically four in the morning since the clocks only changed a week ago, and I still appear to be up and awake and completely uninterested in sleep. I may as...
Christina of Finland? (November 7, 2004) I was wandering down Oxford Street the other day when I stumbled upon this poster featuring Christina Aguilera attempting to flog Sketchers products to no doubt impressionable youth-type people. My first reaction was to think that the pose looked really...
Links for 2004-11-07 (November 7, 2004) Population boom set to stabilise at 9bn by 2300 "Fears that the human race may drive itself to extinction through over-population are challenged by new United Nations figures suggesting an eventual equilibrium as people in poorer countries come to...
Links for 2004-11-06 (November 6, 2004) A two-dimensional to-do list manager that slightly misses the point This simple app allows you to plot things to do against two axes - urgency and importance. These do not appear to be orthogonal to one another. It would...
Links for 2004-11-05 (November 5, 2004) VLC media player I've almost certainly linked to this before, but the VLC cross-platform open source media player is so good, I'm prepared to risk it. A Quicktime Player-killer for the Mac. Why every good liberal should marry an...
How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB? (November 4, 2004) Today's front page in the Britain's Daily Mirror. I'm fairly sure that there's a large number of people around the world who are asking themselves the same question. If you're interested in this stuff, the BBC has a page which...
Links for 2004-11-04 (November 4, 2004) Konakai.com - everything you need to know about Tiki stuff! And I mean everything. And then a bit more. And then a bit more than that. Basically a hell of a lot of stuff about Tiki stuff. Blue Coconut...
Links for 2004-11-03 (November 3, 2004) The World is Turning Gay Or at least it is according to a weird new advert (in Hong Kong) for a new form of cherry ginger Perrier water... (categories: advert advertising advertisment bus flickr gay hongkong perrier pink water)...
Links for 2004-11-02 (November 2, 2004) XFactor - an early version of a new P2P app for OSX It may very well bring Kazaa, Gnutella and OpenFT all together and onto the Mac, but it's also messy and disorganised and not really all the way...
Five years of plasticbag.org: The Visualisations (November 1, 2004) Five years of plasticbag.org - it has passed in a flash. It's seen me move from temp jobs, through journalism school to more temp jobs, from multiple roles at Time Out, to working at emap, designing UpMyStreet Conversations (among others)...
Links for 2004-11-01 (November 1, 2004) The RSS weblog's summary of add-ons, plug-ins and toys that interact with del.icio.us Includes Konfabulator, Wetaste.com, Foxylicious, sid.vicio.us (did not understand this one) and several others (categories: applications bookmarks delicious ethnoclassification folksonomies folksonomy links metadata tags web) Open Brackets...
